{"id":28079,"date":"2025-11-19T18:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28079"},"modified":"2025-11-19T18:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:04:13","slug":"south-korean-ferry-carrying-267-passengers-runs-aground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=28079","title":{"rendered":"South Korean ferry carrying 267 passengers runs aground"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A South Korean ferry carrying 267 people ran aground on an uninhabited island off the country&#8217;s southwest coast on Wednesday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The passenger vessel was travelling from Jeju island to the port city of Mokpo when it ran aground after 8 pm (1100 GMT), the Coast Guard said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So far, there have been no reports of casualties,&#8221; said a Coast Guard statement, which did not detail the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Operations were underway to rescue the 246 passengers and 21 crew on board.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0Saudi Arabia pledges $1tr in US investment, up from $600b<\/p>\n<p>A photo released by Yonhap news agency shows the bow of the ferry pressed up against the island&#8217;s tree-covered slope.<\/p>\n<p>Another image shows passengers waiting to be rescued, many of them wearing what appear to be life vests.<\/p>\n<p>President Lee Jae Myung ordered &#8220;swift rescue efforts&#8221; and instructed officials to provide real-time updates to the public, his office said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, a ferry carrying more than 470 passengers &#8212; mostly pupils on a school trip &#8212; capsized off the southwestern coast, killing 304 people in South Korea&#8217;s worst maritime disaster.<\/p>\n<p>The salvaged wreck of the Sewol ferry was brought to Mokpo nearly three years later.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South Korean ferry carrying 267 people ran aground on an uninhabited island off the country&#8217;s southwest coast on Wednesday, authorities said. The passenger vessel was travelling from Jeju island to the port city of Mokpo when it ran aground after 8 pm (1100 GMT), the Coast Guard said. &#8220;So far, there have been no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}